AB1206 JUVENILE PRIMARY FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME. RESULTS FROM A VOSVIEWER-BASED BIBLIOMETRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS.
Authors: L. Cascella, F. Monaco, D. Nocerino, A. Infernuso, V. Cascella, F. Del Prato, S. Cascella, N. Ruggiero, M. Cascella
Journal: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (2022)

Background In 1985, Yunus and Masi described the juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome (JPFS). It is a chronic musculoskeletal pain syndrome that affects children and adolescents [2] with an estimated prevalence that varies from 1.2 to 6.2% [3]. Clinical features are widespread persistent pain, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and the presence of multiple discrete tender points on physical examination. Notably, this syndrome can impact the quality of life status and psychosocial development of children and adolescents [4]. Despite a lot of research being conducted, several aspects on etiology and pathogenesis, clinical characteristics, and evaluation, as well as therapy should be better explained. Objectives This bibliometric analysis is aimed at dissecting the developed research in the subject. It could provide helpful findings for predicting the direction of future studies, implementing corrective measures, and improving research networks. Methods The global literature on JPFS was scanned in the Web of Science (WOS) online database. The search string applied to identify the closest matching articles was “Juvenile primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome (all field)“. All data were acquired on January 30, 2022. The information for the documents that met the requirements were extracted. The source was Journal Citation Reports™ 2020 (Clarivate Analytics). The literature analysis and knowledge visualization software tool VOSviewer (version 1.6.17) was used to analyze the co-occurrence of keywords (interconnection), co-citation (bibliographic coupling), co-citation analysis for sources, and countries, and analysis of the most productive organizations and networks. Results A total of 66 articles on JPFS were published from 1985 to January 2022, in WOS (n=24; median 2). About article types, 38 were research articles, 16 reviews, 8 meeting abstracts, 2 letters, 1 book chapters, 1 correction, 1 proceeding papers. The analysis of keywords provided by authors showed that of 235 keywords, 38 met the threshold (interconnection 3). The most frequent keywords were Children (n=14); Adolescent (n=13), and Functional disability (n=10) (Figure 1) Figure 1. Co-occurrence of keywords For the co-citation study, we used cited sources (journals) as unit (minimum numbers of citations of a source 15). Of 563 sources, 23 met the threshold. For each source, the total strength of the co-citation links with other sources was rated. The JOURNAL OF RHEUMATOLOGY (IF 4.66; Q2) obtained 22 links and 173 citations. Most documents came fro the US (n=40; links=5), and Israel. The analysis of affiliations was conducted by considering the cut-off 2 as the minimum number of documents of an organization. Out of 59 organizations, 23 met the threshold. The University of Cincinnati produced a total length strength of 3675 (11 documents). Conclusion This bibliometric network analysis on JPFS can be helpful for planning future research. It highlights the strength of representative scietists and core research teams. Research networks should be built, and high-value investigations are warranted. References [1]Yunus MB, Masi AT. Juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome. A clinical study of thirty-three patients and matched normal controls. Arthritis Rheum. 1985;28(2):138-45 [2]Coles ML, Uziel Y. Juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome: A Review- Treatment and Prognosis. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J. 2021;19(1):74 [3]Durmaz Y, Alayli G, Canbaz S, Zahiroglu Y, Bilgici A, Ilhanli I, et al. Prevalence of juvenile fibromyalgia syndrome in an urban population of Turkish adolescents: impact on depressive symptoms, quality of life and school performance. Chin Med J. 2013;126(19):3705–3711 [4]Coles ML, Weissmann R, Uziel Y. Juvenile primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome: epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations and diagnosis. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J. 2021;19(1):22 Disclosure of Interests None declared